This is neato! With all this talk about email imposters, and the government snooping everywhere, I thought it was a good idea to look into encryption. I got Firegpg which can be used with gmail. You first create a public and private key. The public key you can put on your website, or email it to people. You keep the private key. Here's my public key:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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G/8efxAuIACdF6e9Sc4zH1w0gLCJSDzlNVQ8XNQAnRUlSs64ePX2B3i6j83Isn/u
q4lA
=d3FY
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
You put that into a file Harold_Asmis.asc and import it. Now I can sign all my emails, and you can verify it came from me. If you really want to up it up a notch, you encrypt the whole message with my public key and send it to me. Only I can decrypt it.
I think if more people start using this for garbage mail, then it provides a good cover, in case you need it for real (I'm thinking Corporate here!).
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